The convenience of being able to hit F5 in an existing VS session and getting to the breakpoint you have previously set will be worth the pain of setting it up for some folks. With mspec and Jimmy's wrapper (which is also documented on the wiki), you have to edit the Ruby files you are debugging (which will require doing "tf edit" first), will launch a new VS session which can be slow, won't allow setting conditional breakpoints easily, wont show unexpected exceptions prior to the sleep/attach which might be triggering a failure later on, etc. Having options is a good thing so people can chose whatever works best for them.
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jim Deville
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:00 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
In my opinion, the most future proof way is going to be using the standard runner (mspec) and a sleep, or using Jimmy's debugger wrapper.
JD
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:09 PM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
I did have to play with a bunch of settings to get mspec to work under VS, and its possible that I have set some setting that I am now forgetting, but I do not have RUBY_EXE set, and I don't seem to have a .mspecrc file either. Could you please update http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby with the exact step you took to enable you to debug with VS so that others don't have to go through the same issues?
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Pete Bacon Darwin
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 1:29 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
OK so I worked it out.
Mspec-run does indeed run only a single process but it still requires mspec/lib/mspec/helpers/ruby_exe.rb. This file tries to set a constant called RUBY_EXE but it is not able to do so: It tries to guess it from various environment, constant and config settings. Since ir does not set RUBY_NAME you have to do something like set the environment variable RUBY_EXE or have a ~/.mspecrc file that specifies the :target => ... and so on.
Pete
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jim Deville
Sent: Thursday,19 February 19, 2009 18:09
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
All the versions that IronRuby has used, have the outer layer CRuby process kick off a target implementation process. If you call mspec -fs core -t "ir.exe", it becomes a call to ir.exe mspec-run -fs core. For many of the specs, you can skip the outer layer, and run mspec-run (or mspec-ci, or mspec-tag) directly. For debugging, this is what Shri is talking about.
As a side note, I advise not doing it this way in general, since there are environment variables set via the outer layer runner, which will affect the operation of Mspec. Until now, it has only been MSPEC_RUNNER=1, which tells Mspec that the specs are being run by Mspec, not Rspec. However, Mspec also sets RUBY_EXE and RUBY_OPTIONS, to the values of the -t and -T flags.
Now that ir -e works (I will be pushing the new revision today), these variables will affect the operation of the specs. Many of the specs that test top level code, depend on testing a fresh process, or test the command line options (I am adding these right now) use the ruby_exe helper. This helper starts a new process of the currently running implementation to run the specified command or file. Using the outer layer with -t and -T ensures that these specs are run on the proper implementation and options. I know that the implementation attempts to be inferred via other means (RUBY_NAME, RUBY_PLATFORM), but the options are not as easily taken care of.
The wiki (http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/rubyspec) tells how to get things set up, and if you set things up correctly (using ~/.mspecrc and setting /path/to/mspec/bin in your PATH) you can run a spec file as easily as mspec ci core/array/pack (to run core/array/pack_spec.rb). You have to make sure set :target, "/path/to/ir.exe" and set :prefix, "path/to/rubyspec" are set in ~/.mspecrc, from there it should just work.
Let me know if you have more questions on any of this.
JD
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Pete Bacon Darwin
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:21 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
Hi Shri and Jimmy,
Thanks for the suggestions. What version of mspec are you running? I am running the head version directly from rubyspecs github: "d482804 Added should have_constant matcher."
In my version, the initial ruby process kicks off a new ruby process (potentially a completely different implementation, like JRuby or Rubinius) for each test run. So there is no point in debugging the initial process.
Shri, on my machine your instructions below result in "unknown: Unable to find a suitable ruby executable. (Exception)", which I guess is mspec telling me it couldn't load ir.exe or equivalent as a sub-process for executing the spec.
Jimmy, how do you attach to the mspec process in the first place? The same problem as above is true for just debugging mspec run ...
Pete
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde
Sent: Wednesday,18 February 18, 2009 17:59
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
Here is what I added to http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby. This works pretty well for me. If the paths are incorrect, feel free to update the wiki.
Debugging with Visual Studio
In the Debug tab of the Project properties for Ruby.Console.csproj, set the fields as follows:
* Start Action: For Ruby.Console.csproj, "Start project" should be enabled.
For any other project, "Start external program:" should be enabled and set to "c:\vsl\Merlin\Main\Bin\Debug\ir.exe"
* Start Options: "Command line arguments" should be set to the following for running the "supports /i for ignoring case" example of string\gsub_spec.rb:
-v -X:Interpret c:/vsl/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/bin/mspec-run -e "supports /i for ignoring case" -fs -V -B c:/vsl/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/default.mspec c:/vsl/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/rubyspec/1.8/core/string/gsub_spec.rb
Hitting F5 should now run the single RubySpec example under VS
Thanks,
Shri
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Schementi
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:52 AM
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
You can pass the spec file to mspec itself like:
mspec run core/io/popen_close
Then I make a call to "debugger" http://gist.github.com/61605, which breaks on a call to System::Diagnostics::Debugger when a debugger is attached to the app. Unfortunately this breaks in a Ruby method, so you have to jump up a couple CLR frames to get to the line directly after the "debugger" call, and I'm not sure of a way how to do that automatically. Anyway, this works great.
~js
From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Pete Bacon Darwin
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:11 AM
To: 'Pete Bacon Darwin'; ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Debugging rubyspecs
The easiest way it appears is to stick a pause in the rubyspec of interest and attach to the process while it is waiting. It does totally kill the computer performance while you are debugging (like minutes to step through each line!)
Pete
From: Pete Bacon Darwin [mailto:bacondarwin at googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday,18 February 18, 2009 15:19
To: 'ironruby-core at rubyforge.org'
Subject: Debugging rubyspecs
Anybody know how to run rubyspecs under the Visual Studio debugger? If I just set the rubyspec file as the command line argument in the debug properties in VS then it just asks me to install mspec as a gem.
Pete
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